Student Driven Success Criteria

Co-creating your success criteria is an effective strategy that will shift the ownership of learning from the teacher to the student which in turn will increase the relevance, clarity and motivation of students. After you have developed and shared your learning target to students, ask them the question: What will success look like? It is important that you visually capture the student’s responses for all to see. Use your student’s responses to create the success criteria, working to build consensus that is aligned to the standards you are teaching to.  You may even choose to capture student discussion within a blank rubric.

Questions to ask students if the learning target is process based: ·         If we videotaped class, what should we see each other doing? ·         During a discussion, what types of behaviors should we see? ·         What are some non-examples? What do we not want to see? ·         What types of behaviors are exemplary? ·         How can we show evidence of the behavior?

Questions to ask student if the learning target is product based: ·         What should the product look like? ·         Can the product be broken down into clear measurable parts? If so, what are they? ·         What components of the product do we value more than others? ·         What components are essential to demonstrate you got it?

At the end of the lesson students will have clear criteria to compare their learning with the target.